Is the Media trying to crash the Stock market before the election?

[ErikJ]

Look at all these gloom and dom stories on the front page of Market Watch. To me its obvious they are trying as hard as they can to spook investors to pull money out of the stocks so there is a big correction in the market in the next week or 2. .
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[GeorgeGist]

1. Wouldn't doubt it.

Look who owns MarketWatch.

These butt-chuggers aren't just wrong, they're evil.

[onenote]

2. Its the 25th anniversary of the biggest one-day stock market drop in history

Did you think it wouldn't get covered?

The market will be fine. There were poor earnings reports today and the market was overdue for a correction.

In case you haven't noticed, most of the Media are big publicly held companies. Crashing the stock market is the last thing they want to do to themselves.